PhD Candidate, Biology- Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior

New York, New York

City University of New York

current - 2018

• Population genetic patterns and processes from local to global scales

M.S., Zoology

Carbondale, Illinois

Southern Illinois University

2018 - 2016

• Systematics, phylogeography, and landscape genetics of the Ameerega petersi group (family Dendrobatidae)
• Cooperative Wildlife Research Lab

B.S., Biology- Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior

Austin, Texas

University of Texas

2015 - 2011

• Includes coursework from the University of North Texas

Graduate Research Assistant

Michael J. Hickerson Lab

City University of New York

current - 2018

• Investigating evolutionary responses to environmental change across spatial scales.

Graduate Research Assistant

Jason L. Brown Lab

Southern Illinois University

2018 - 2016

• Completed thesis work on the evolution of Andean poison frogs.

Research Assistant

Texas Biodiversity Collections

University of Texas

2016 - 2016

• Herpetology Division
• Supported data collection and collections management for conservation efforts.

Undergraduate Researcher

Daniel I. Bolnick Lab

University of Texas

2014 - 2013

• Completed an independent project through the National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates. Experimental design, field work in British Columbia, lab work, data analysis, and first-author publication.

Undergraduate Researcher

David Cannatella Lab

University of Texas

2014 - 2013

• Field work in support of frog acoustic research.

Field Technician

Middlesex, Belize

Toucan Ridge Ecology and Education Society

2014 - 2014

• Designed and executed field protocols for monitoring amphibian populations.

Collections Assistant

Texas Biodiversity Collections

University of Texas

2014 - 2014

• Ichthyology Division
• Collected and analyzed fish morphometric data for taxonomic research and digitized research collections.

Ecology and Evolution

CCNY Biology Department

New York, NY

2022 - 2022

• TA, BIO 228
• Led and prepared labs.

R for Reproducible Scientific Analysis

Columbia University

New York, NY

2021 - 2021

• Invited workshop.
• Half-day online workshop as part of the Pre-Statistics Course Bootcamp.
• Facilitated by Software Carpentries.

Introduction to Text Analysis in R

CUNY Graduate Center

New York, NY

2021 - 2021

• 1.5 hour online workshop for CUNY Graduate Center faculty and students.
• Hosted on rstudio.cloud.
• Given as part of the GC Digital Fellows.

Digital Research Institute

CUNY Graduate Center

New York, NY

2021 - 2020

• Five day series of workshops introducing CUNY faculty and students to digital tools for research.
• Two sessions- one in January 2020 and one in February 2021.
• Led the R track.

Reproducible Data Analysis in R

CUNY Graduate Center

New York, NY

2020 - 2020

• 2.5 hour workshop on using RMarkdown and github for reproducible data analysis.
• Hosted within the workr R package as an interactive tutorial.
• Given as part of the GC Digital Fellows

Data Visualization in R

CUNY Graduate Center

New York, NY

2020 - 2020

• 2.5 hour workshop on using ggplot2 for data visualization.
• Hosted within the workr R package as an interactive tutorial.
• Given as part of the GC Digital Fellows

Exploring population structure in R with adegenet and sNMF

CUNY Graduate Center

New York, NY

2020 - 2020

• 1.5 hour online workshop given to an international group of evolutionary biology faculty and graduate students as part of the four day Bioinformatics Bootcamp for Ecology and Evolution.

Introduction to R and RStudio

CUNY Graduate Center

New York, NY

2020 - 2020

• Two hour online workshop for CUNY Graduate Center faculty and students.
• Given as part of the GC Digital Fellows.

Introduction to population structure inference in R

SIUC Zoology Department

Carbondale, IL

2019 - 2019

• Invited workshop.
• Two hour workshop for Zoology graduate and undergraduate students.

Introductory R and RStudio

CUNY Graduate Center

New York, NY

2019 - 2019

• Invited workshop.
• 1.5 hour workshop for graduate students in the Quantitative Zoogeography graduate course.

Bioinformatic processing of ultraconserved elements for phylogenetic analysis

SIUC Zoology Department

Carbondale, IL

2019 - 2019

• Two hour workshop to introduce graduate students to a bioinformatic pipeline.

SLiM 5-day workshop

CUNY Biology Department

New York, NY

2019 - 2019

• Co-organized five full-day workshop on SLiM population genetic simulation program

Data Wrangling in R

CUNY Graduate Center

New York, NY

2019 - 2019

• 2.5 hour workshop on using the tidyverse for data manipulation.
• Hosted within the workr R package as an interactive tutorial.
• Given as part of the GC Digital Fellows

BioSkills

SIUC Biology Department

Carbondale, IL

2018 - 2017

• TA, BIO 212
• Co-developed material for new writing and discussion-based course section.
• Concurrently ran ecology and developmental biology sections.

Introduction to Evolution and Ecology Lab

SIUC Biology Department

Carbondale, IL

2017 - 2017

• TA, BIO 212
• Led and prepared labs.

Vertebrate Anatomy Lab

SIUC Zoology Department

Carbondale, IL

2017 - 2017

• TA, ZOOL 418
• Led and prepared labs.
• Advised undergraduate lab assistant.

Reptile and amphibian survey and capture techniques

SIUC Zoology Department

Carbondale, IL

2017 - 2017

• Invited lecture, Curation of Collections (PLB 401).
• One hour lecture on best practices for herpetological surveys.

Appropriate techniques for identifying and handling reptiles and amphibians in the field.

SIUC Zoology Department

Carbondale, IL

2017 - 2017

• Invited lecture, SIUC Wildlife Techniques (ZOOL 469).
• One hour lecture and field demonstration on best practices for herpetological surveys.

Introductory Biology for Non-Majors Lab

SIUC Zoology Department

Carbondale, IL

2016 - 2016

• TA, ZOOL 115
• Led and prepared labs.

Instructor

Camp Einstein Afterschool STEM Program

Austin, TX

2016 - 2016

• Summer afterschool program for early elementary school students.

Biostatistics

UT Biology Department

Austin, TX

2015 - 2014

• Undergraduate TA
• Assisted graduate TA with leading and grading R programming labs, and facilitating course discussion.

Sonification for Data Communication

N/A

New York, NY

2021

• Post introducing the concept of sonification, its uses, and its benefits.

RStudio Cloud for Education

N/A

New York, NY

2020

• Post outlining the advantages of using the RStudio Cloud system for teaching.

Funding sources for undergraduate research in ecology and evolution

N/A

New York, NY

2020

• Post highlighting funding resources for undergraduate research

PDIG Training Grant Spotlight: Connor French

N/A

New York, NY

2019

• Overview of a project I used the Provost’s Digital Innovation Grant to prepare for.

Interactively explore geographic data in R using leaflet

N/A

New York, NY

2019

• Walk through of creating an interactive map in R.

Global determinants of the distribution of insect genetic diversity

bioRxiv. 10.1101/2022.02.09.479762

N/A

2022

• French, C.M., Bertola, L.D., Carnaval, A.C., Economo, E.P., Kass, J.M., Lohman, D.J., Marske, K.A., Meier, R., Overcast, I., Rominger, A.J., Staniczenko, P., Hickerson, M.J.

Phylogenetic relationships and systematics of the Amazonian poison frog genus Ameerega using ultraconserved genomic elements

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 142, 106638.

N/A

2020

• Wilson, G.X., French, C.M., Twomey, E.M., Chávez, G., Prates, I, von May, R., la Riva, I.D., Lötters, S., Reichle, S., Serrano-Rojas, S.J., Whitworth, A., Brown, J.L.

Morphological correlates of invasion in Florida cane toad (Rhinella marina) populations: Shortening of legs and reduction in leg asymmetry as populations become established

Acta Oecologica. 109, 103652

N/A

2020

• Rubio, A.O., French, C.M., Catenazzi, A.

Speciation with introgression: Phylogeography and systematics of the Ameerega petersi group (Dendrobatidae).

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 138, 31-42.

N/A

2019

• French, C.M., Deutsch, M.S., Chávez G., Almora C.E., Brown, J.L.

The tadpole of Ameerega boehmei in southeastern Bolivia

Zootaxa. 4661, 1.

N/A

2019

• French, C.M., Burkette, C., Reichle, S., Brown, J.L.

Geographical variation in colour of female threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus).

PeerJ. 6:e4807.

N/A

2018

• French, C.M., Ingram, T., and Bolnick, D.I.

Rana juliani. Vocalization.

Mesoamerican Herpetology. 4(1). pp. 170.

N/A

2017

• French, C.M., Kilborn, V., and Jäger, K.L.

Diadophis punctatus regalis (Regal Ringneck Snake). DIET.

Herpetological Review. 48(2). pp. 448.

N/A

2017

• French, C.M.

SDMtoolbox 2.0: the next generation python-based: GIS toolkit for landscape genetic, biogeographic and species distribution model analyses.

PeerJ. 5:e4095.

N/A

2017

• Brown, J.L., Bennett, J., and French, C.M.

Determinants of the global distribution of genetic diversity in terrestrial insects

New York Species Distribution Modeling Discussion Group

N/A

2021

• French, C.M.
• Invited presentation

Comparative phylogeography of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest leaf litter lizards (genus Enyalius)

World Congress of Herpetology

N/A

2020

• French, C.M., Damasceno, R., Rodrigues, M., Carnaval, A.C., Hickerson, M.J.
• Oral presentation

Using genetics to understand species responses to climate change

New York City College of Technology- Systematics Undergraduate Course

N/A

2020

• French, C.M.
• Invited presentation

A dynamic history in the Tropical Andes: phylogeography and systematics of the Ameerega petersi group (Dendrobatidae)

Evolution

N/A

2019

• French, C.M., and Brown, J.L.
• Oral presentation

Predicting global insect genetic diversity

Evolution

N/A

2019

• French, C.M., Bertola, L., Hickerson, M.J.
• Poster presentation

Climate-driven diversification in a clade of Peruvian poison frogs

Evolution

N/A

2017

• French, C.M., Brown, J.L.
• Oral presentation

Climate fluctuation as a driver of diversification in a clade of Peruvian poison frogs

Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists

N/A

2017

• French, C.M., Brown, J.L.
• Oral presentation

Morphological divergence among multiple Notropis oxyrhynchus populations

American Fisheries Society

N/A

2015

• French, C.M.
• Poster presentation

Morphological assessment of hybridization between two ranid species, Lithobates juliani and L. vaillanti

Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles

N/A

2015

• French, C.M.
• Oral presentation

Journal of Biogeography, Biotropica, Environmental Biology of Fishes, Molecular Ecology

N/A

N/A

N/A

Graduate Center Digital Fellowship

City University of New York

N/A

2021 - 2019

• $56,250
• $28,125/year

Helen and Frederick Gaige Fund

American Society of Ichthyology and Herpetology

N/A

2020

• $900

Provost’s Pre-Dissertation Research Fellowship for the Sciences

City University of New York

N/A

2020

• $5,000

Student Scholarship

World Congress of Herpetology

N/A

2020

• $940

Graduate Research Excellence Grant RC Lewontin Early Award

Society for the Study of Evolution

N/A

2019

• $2,300

Charles & Florence Foote Teaching Award in Zoology

Southern Illinois University at Carbondale

N/A

2018

• $750

Biodiversity Under Environmental Change Seed Grant

City College of New York

N/A

2018

• $2,500

Digital Initiatives Training Grant

City University of New York

N/A

2018

• $500

Zoology Graduate Student Association Travel Award

Southern Illinois University at Carbondale

N/A

2017

• $100

Cooperative Wildlife Research Lab Featured Graduate Student

Southern Illinois University at Carbondale

N/A

2017

Undergraduate Research Fellowship

University of Texas at Austin

N/A

2015

• $1,000

University Honors

University of Texas at Austin

N/A

2014

General Education Scholarship

University of North Texas

N/A

2012 - 2011

• $6,000

Dean’s List

University of North Texas

N/A

2012

Undergraduate Diversity at Evolution

Evolution Meeting

N/A

2019

• Mentored two undergraduates attending their first conference

Krista Jäger

Dalhousie University

N/A

2017 - 2016

• Assisted honors thesis investigating ranid frog population genetics
• Co-authored natural history note on Rana juliani vocalization

Michael Deutsche

Southern Illinois University at Carbondale

N/A

2017

• Undergraduate assistant, learning lab techniques and experimental design in anuran morphometrics
• Senior project on poison frog call variation
• Co-authored resulting publication

Predicting global insect diversity

Science Day

City College of New York

2019

• Invited oral presentation

Peru: where plan C comes first

Herpetology Club

Southern Illinois University at Carbondale

2017

• Oral presentation

There and back again: divergence and convergence in poison frogs

Darwin Week

Southern Illinois University at Carbondale

2017

• Invited oral presentation

Sightseers slither into southern Illinois for Snake Road

Daily Egyptian

N/A

2017

• Interview

Frog diversity and evolution

Kealing Middle School Magnet Program Zoology Club

N/A

2016

• Invited lecture

Frogs: weird wonders of the natural world

Lamar Fine Arts Academy Middle School

N/A

2016

• Invited lecture

Applied Machine Learning

R Studio Conference

Austin, TX

2019

• Workshop

Machine Learning for Scientists

City University of New York

N/A

2019

• Course

The Fundamentals of UX Research

City University of New York

N/A

2019

• Workshop

Genome Assembly and Annotation

American Museum of Natural History

N/A

2019

• Workshop

Analysis of Rad-Sequence Data (RadCamp)

Instituto de Biociências

Universidade de São Paulo

2018

• Workshop

Biostatistics

City University of New York

N/A

2018

• Course

Introduction to GIS

Southern Illinois University at Carbondale

N/A

2017

• Course

Quantitative Zoogeography

Southern Illinois University at Carbondale

N/A

2017

• Course

Intermediate Computational Statistics

Southern Illinois University at Carbondale

N/A

2016

• Course

Biostatistics

University of Texas at Austin

N/A

2014

• Course

Intro to NGS Bioinformatics

University of Texas at Austin

N/A

2013

• Workshop

Society for the Study of Evolution

N/A

N/A

current - 2017

American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists

N/A

N/A

current - 2017

Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles

N/A

N/A

current - 2015